Dai Zihang
Zihang Dai is a research scientist and technical staff member at xAI, where he has worked since July 2023 as a founding member of the team behind the conversational AI product Grok. He previously served as a staff research scientist at Google Brain from November 2020, following his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for his work on XLNet, a generalized autoregressive pretraining method for language understanding, and Funnel-Transformer for efficient language processing.
“People like Dai Zihang from Grok — did WeChat actually try to recruit him? They've been in contact, around this year. They're looking for someone who could independently lead the entire large model effort.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.